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1 Paul tell um say, “Oona we bredren an we fada dem, listen op now. Leh me tell oona wa A done do. Den oona ain gwine wahn fa condemn me!” 2 Wen dey yeh Paul da taak Hebrew, dey hush op eben mo.
3 Den Paul tell um say, “A a Jew. A bon een Tarsus oba dey een Cilicia. Bot A been raise yah een Jerusalem, an Gamaliel been me teacha. E tek time fa laan me all de Law dat we ole people done lef we. An A gii mesef fa do wa God wahn, jes like all ob oona yah taday. 4 A beena fight ginst de people dat folla dis Way, an mek some ob um suffa til dey dead. A beena grab hole ta man dem an ooman dem an tie um op an chunk um eenta de jailhouse. 5 De head man ob de Jew priest dem an all de leada dem een de Jew Council kin tell oona dat A da tell oona de trute. A eben been git letta fom dem leada fa tek ta de Jew bredren een Damascus. A beena gwine dey fa grab hole ta dem people dey wa da folla dis Way, fa tie um op an bring um back yah ta Jerusalem fa git punish.
Paul Tell How e Come fa Be a Christian
6 “A beena trabel ta Damascus, an A mos git dey, wen all ob a sudden, bout de middle ob de day, a bright light come outta de sky an shine roun bout me. 7 A faddown ta de groun, an A yeh a boice say, ‘Saul! Saul! Wa mek ya fight ginst me so?’ 8 A aks say, ‘Lawd, who ya da?’ De boice ansa me say, ‘A Jedus dat come outta Nazareth. A de one ya da fight ginst.’ 9 Now de people dat been dey wid me, dey see de light, bot dey ain yeh de boice ob de one dat beena taak ta me. 10 A aks say, ‘Lawd, wa A fa do?’ De Lawd tell me say, ‘Git op. Mus go eenta Damascus. An een Damascus dey gwine tell ya all de ting dem dat God done cide fa ya fa do.’ 11 Now dat bright light been mek me bline. So de people dat been dey wid me tek hole ta me han an hep me go on eenta Damascus.
12 “One man name Ananias beena lib dey een dat town. E been a man wa wahn fa please God. E beena do wa de Jew Law say, an all de Jew people wa lib een Damascus spec um. 13 Ananias come stanop by me an say, ‘Me broda Saul, ya gwine see gin right now!’ Jes like dat, right den A been able fa see gin, an A see Ananias.
14 “E say, ‘De God dat we ole people beena woshup, e done pick ya fa mek ya know wa e wahn ya fa do, an fa show ya de One wa da waak scraight wid God, an fa mek ya yeh e own boice da taak ta ya. 15 Cause ya gwine tell all de people wa ya done see an wa ya done yeh. 16 Now den, hoccome ya da wait? Git op. Leh um bactize ya, an pray ta de Lawd Jedus Christ fa wash way ya sin.’
God Sen Paul ta de People dat Ain Jew
17 “A gone back ta Jerusalem. An wen A beena pray een God House, God show me a wision. 18 A see de Lawd. E tell me say, ‘Go, git outta Jerusalem right now. Cause de people dey ain gwine bleebe wa ya tell um bout me.’ 19 A ansa um say, ‘Lawd, dey know A nyuse fa gone fom one Jew meetin house ta de nex fa grab hole ta dem people dat bleebe pon ya. A nyuse fa chunk um een de jailhouse an beat um op. 20 An A been dey too wen dey kill Stephen, de man dat beena tell people bout ya. A beena gree fa hab um kill Stephen, an A beena gyaad de coat dem ob de people wen dey beena kill um.’ 21 Den de Lawd tell me say, ‘Mus go way, cause A gwine sen ya way off ta de people dat ain Jew.’ ”
22 De people listen ta wa Paul say til e say God been sen um way ta de people dat ain Jew. Den dey staat fa holla say, “Leh we git rid ob Paul! Leh we kill um an sen um way fom dis wol! E ain fit fa lib!” 23 De people beena holla loud, an dey shrow off dey coat an dey shrow dort op een de air. 24 De commanda ob de Roman sodja dem tell e sodja dem fa cyaa Paul eenta de place weh dey lib. E chaage um fa beat Paul fa mek um taak, an tell um hoccome de people beena holla ginst um like dis. 25 Bot wen dey tie Paul op an scretch um out fa beat um, Paul taak ta de offisa wa beena stanop dey. Paul aks um say, “De law ain tell oona dat oona kin beat a Roman citizen wen nobody ain eben jedge um, needa find out dat e done sompin bad, ainty dough?”
26 Wen de offisa yeh wa Paul say, e gone fa tell de commanda say, “Wa ya da do? Dis man a Roman citizen!”
27 So den de commanda gone ta Paul an aks um say, “Tell me fa true, ya a Roman citizen?”
Paul ansa say, “Yeah, A a Roman citizen.”
28 De commanda say, “A pay plenty money fa git fa be a Roman citizen.”
Paul tell um say, “Bot me modda an me fada been Roman citizen, so A bon a Roman citizen.”
29 Right den de sodja dem dat been gwine beat Paul fa mek um taak, dey ton back an lef um. An de commanda, too, been scaid wen e yeh dat Paul been a Roman citizen, cause e been mek de sodja dem tie Paul op wid chain.
Dey Tek Paul ta de Council
30 De commanda been wahn fa know jes wa de Jew people beena cuse Paul bout. So de nex day e hab e sodja dem tek off Paul chain. Den e chaage de leada dem ob de priest dem an all de memba dem ob de Jew Council fa come meet togeda. An e bring Paul, an mek um stanop een front ob um.